top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-07-22

Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917131

5 years ago

738 upvotes – 614 comments

Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy

5 years ago

698 upvotes – 397 comments

First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/?lang

5 years ago

654 upvotes – 171 comments

Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experimental-blood-test-detects-cancer-up-to-four-years-before-symptoms-appear/

5 years ago

650 upvotes – 189 comments

Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy

http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

5 years ago

498 upvotes – 121 comments

Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective

https://twitter.com/AdamNeumannsCoS/status/1285651161723342848

5 years ago

488 upvotes – 398 comments

Design Docs at Google

https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-google/

5 years ago

459 upvotes – 187 comments

1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click

https://1secondpainting.com/

5 years ago

423 upvotes – 138 comments

Who gets invited to the party?

https://medium.com/@cyril0allen/who-gets-invited-to-the-party-246a1ba6849a

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 401 comments

Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript

https://github.com/propjockey/css-sweeper#readme

5 years ago

390 upvotes – 92 comments

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

5 years ago

365 upvotes – 109 comments

Apple Security Research Device Program

https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-device/

5 years ago

330 upvotes – 186 comments

Amazon Ion

https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

5 years ago

307 upvotes – 110 comments

Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/07/20/online-classes-are-not-worth-cost-of-full-tuition.html

5 years ago

296 upvotes – 313 comments

Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply-20190411/

5 years ago

266 upvotes – 94 comments

Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft

https://slackhq.com/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft

5 years ago

256 upvotes – 329 comments

Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React

https://react-guitar.com

5 years ago

242 upvotes – 41 comments

Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/508305-trump-administration-establishes-75-million-quantum-computing-centers

5 years ago

237 upvotes – 109 comments

The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators

https://restofworld.org/2020/facebook-international-content-moderators/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 256 comments

A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system

https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-spectrum/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 71 comments

Data Visualization Catalog

https://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 27 comments

Semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages

https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep

5 years ago

202 upvotes – 28 comments

LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors

https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 47 comments

Why is CSS the way it is?

https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-way-it-is/

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 163 comments

Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study

https://www.aftau.org/press-release---brain-connectivity---july-20-2020

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 50 comments

Twilio: Someone broke into our AWS S3 silo, added 'non-malicious' code to JS SDK

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/21/twilio_sdk_code_injection/

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 155 comments

Ask HN: Resources to start learning about quantum computing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914992

5 years ago

185 upvotes – 50 comments

Flash Game History

http://www.flashgamehistory.com/

5 years ago

171 upvotes – 69 comments

Deep learning to translate between programming languages

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deep-learning-to-translate-between-programming-languages

5 years ago

164 upvotes – 76 comments

New Features in Gnuplot 5.4

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826456/2ea90dd464e104d5/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 41 comments

ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB

https://blog.metabrainz.org/2020/07/22/listenbrainz-moves-to-timescaledb/

5 years ago

154 upvotes – 96 comments

BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up

https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps/

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook

https://restofworld.org/2020/bangladesh-economy-runs-on-facebook/

5 years ago

146 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components

https://uiplaybook.dev

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 33 comments

Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/swiss-predictive-policing/

5 years ago

144 upvotes – 73 comments

The United Nations of Uniqlo

https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/07/06/the-united-nations-of-uniqlo

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Q2 2020 Update

https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/f41f4254-f1cc-4929-a0b6-6623b00475a6

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 291 comments

Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3404974

5 years ago

121 upvotes – 4 comments

Japan top court tells Twitter to disclose retweeters' info

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/22/national/japan-top-court-tells-twitter-disclose-retweeters-info/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 94 comments

Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917956

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers

https://gitern.com

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 84 comments

Consider getting a “DIY” degree online instead of a traditional CS major

https://www.pashabitz.com/posts/undergrad-altenative/

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 178 comments

IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200708

5 years ago

111 upvotes – 182 comments

New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

https://www.neowin.net/news/new-kde-slimbook-launched-with-ryzan-4000-series-processor

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 63 comments

The AN-225: How the Cold War created the world's largest airplane

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/an-225-worlds-largest-airplane/index.html

5 years ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

Show HN: Biff – Self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure

https://findka.com/biff/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 19 comments

Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-will-never-stop-proving-the-prime-number-theorem-20200722/

5 years ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley

https://thevalley.substack.com/p/understand-seed-rounds-dynamics-in

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 37 comments

Terminal Server on a Budget

https://blog.lasseter.org/posts/2020/07/terminal-server-on-a-budget/

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

Swedish epidemiology boss says questioned Covid-19 strategy seems to be working

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-strategy-idUSKCN24M25L

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 259 comments

The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017)

https://twobithistory.org/2017/09/21/the-rise-and-rise-of-json.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 167 comments

Defining the ’90s Music Canon

https://pudding.cool/2020/07/song-decay

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 110 comments

Bacteria and Colon Cancer

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/22/bacteria-and-colon-cancer

5 years ago

85 upvotes – 29 comments

Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-profit-and-the-lols/

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 25 comments

Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/07/20/homomorphic.html

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 15 comments

People loved Nikola but not its warrants

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/people-loved-nikola-but-not-its-warrants

5 years ago

77 upvotes – 53 comments
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